'Tis sure to come good."

Persons with much hair or down upon their arms and hands, will at some
future period enjoy great wealth; or as the common expression has it,
"are born to be rich."

HENRY KERSLEY.

Corp. Chris. Hall, Maidstone.


_A Rainbow in the Morning, &c._--"Mr. THOMS" (No. 26, p. 413.) says that
he believes no one has remarked the philosophy of this proverbial rhyme.
Sir Humphry Davy, however, points it out in his _Salmonia_.

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ERROR IN JOHNSON'S LIFE OF SELDEN.

In Johnson's (Geo. W.) _Memoirs of John Selden_, London, 1635, 8vo. pp.
128, 129, is a notice of Dr. Sibthorpe's celebrated Sermon preached at
Northampton, and printed in 1627 with the title of _Apostolike
Obedience_. After stating the difficult experienced in obtaining the
necessary sanction for its publication, owing to Abp. Abbot refusing the
requisite _imprimatur_, the author says that ultimately the licence was
"_signed by Land himself_, and published under the title of _Apostolical
Obedience_." A reference at the foot of the page to "Rushworth, p. 444,"
leads me to conclude that it is on his authority Mr. Johnson has made
this statement; but not having access to the "Historical Collections," I
am unable to examine. At any rate, Heylin, in his _Cyprianus Anglicus_,